The Fated Series
“We sit on maps and forget our wolves are threads in the same loom. Four bonds were forged—unorthodox, blessed, binding. Pull them taut and you can feel a direction.”
Osiris frowned. “We tried. The first nights… there was nothing but static. The link felt… muddied.”
“Because we were noisy,” Lefu said. “Grief makes poor listeners. Quiet your wolves. Listen for the lack. A bond stretched too far and damped by wolfsbane hums—thin as a hair, but it hums. We triangulate. You, me, Tristan, Balor. Four bearings make a point.”
Balor pushed off the pillar, reluctant heat flaring in his gaze despite himself. “A Fourfold Tether,” he said. “Old rite.”